The Online Safety Act 2023 has finally received Royal Assent, after completing the parliamentary process in September. The Act imposes on duties on social media regarding the content they host. These duties include: removing illegal content quickly or prevent it from appearing in the first place, including content promoting self-harm; prevent children from accessing harmful…
UK law Competition Appeal Tribunal grants permission to serve out of jurisdiction in collective damages action against Google The CAT has published a reasoned order in Case No: 1606/7/7/23 granting permission for the proposed class representative, S, to serve a collective proceedings claim form on Alphabet Inc, Google LLC and Google Ireland outside the jurisdiction….
The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) is a part of LawtechUK, an industry-led group tasked with supporting the digital transformation of the UK legal services sector and with positioning English law as a law of choice for new technologies. The UKJT brings together the judiciary, the Law Commission of England and Wales, regulators and technology and…
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The High Court has ruled in favour of the defendant, Pinewood Technologies in Pinewood Technologies Asia Pacific Ltd v Pinewood Technologies plc [2023] EWHC 2506 (TCC). Pinewood is a UK-registered company and a subsidiary of Pendragon plc, an automotive retailed. It develops and supplies a dealer management system for the automotive industry. Typically, Pinewood Technologies…
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The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have issued a Joint Opinion on the proposed Regulation on the digital euro as a central bank digital currency. The digital euro aims to facilitate electronic payments by individuals, both online and offline, as an additional means of payment alongside cash. The…
What separates humanity from technology? The sudden omniscience of ChatGPT in November 2022 has prompted a good deal of philosophising on that question with the apparent gap between the human and the machine growing ever less defined. There is as yet little common ground on where the boundary lies but one oft cited difference is…
Clearview provides a service that allows customers, including the police, to upload an image of a person to the company’s app, which is then checked for a match against all the images in the database. The app then provides a list of images that have similar characteristics with the photo provided by the customer, with…
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Gerald Brent, Associate, Addleshaw Goddard, provides a visual summary of some of the key elements from the recent SCL 50th Anniversary Conference….
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The Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has published its report NFTs and the Blockchain: the risks to sport and culture. It notes that while sales of NFTs peaked last year and that they may not reach the same level of popularity again, concerns remain over how traditional regulatory regimes have been exposed by the…
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UK law CMA clears revised deal for Microsoft to buy Activision The new deal for Microsoft to buy Activision without cloud gaming rights has been cleared after the CMA concluded it would preserve competitive prices and better services. In August this year Microsoft made a concession that would see Ubisoft, instead of Microsoft, buy Activision’s…